The 13th Indiana Infantry Regiment was an

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Service

The 13th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment was originally accepted for state service for one year and was organized at Indianapolis for the U.S. service by volunteers from the companies in camp. It was one of the first four regiments volunteering from the state for three years and was mustered on June 19, 1861. Attached to Rosecrans' Brigade, McClellan's Army of West Virginia, July 1861. 1st Brigade, Army of Occupation, West Virginia, to September 1861. Reynolds' Cheat Mountain Brigade, West Virginia, to November 1861. Milroy's Command, Cheat Mountain District, West Virginia, to January 1862. 2nd Brigade, Landers' Division, to March 1862. 2nd Brigade, Shields' 2nd Division, Banks'

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and Department of the Shenandoah to May 1862. 2nd Brigade, Shields' Division, Department of the Rappahannock, to July 1862. Ferry's 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, IV Corps,

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, Department of Virginia, September 1862. Foster's Provisional Brigade, Division at Suffolk, VII Corps, to April 1863. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, VII Corps, to July, 1863. 1st Brigade, Vogdes' Division, Folly Island, South Carolina,

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, Department of the South, to January 1864. 1st Brigade, Vogdes Division, Folly Island, South Carolina, Northern District, Department of the South, to February 1864. 1st Brigade, Vogdes' Division, District of Florida, to April 1864. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, X Corps,

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, to May 1864. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, XVIII Corps, to June 1864. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, X Corps, to December 1864. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, XXIV Corps, to January 1865. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division,

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Provisional Corps, Department of North Carolina, to March 1865. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, X Corps, Department of North Carolina, to September 1865.

Detailed service

The 13th Indiana Infantry Regiment left Indiana for ''West Virginia'' July 4. Subsequent activity is as follows: July 7–17, 1861: Campaign in ''West Virginia'' July 11: '' Battle of Rich Mountain'' July 13: Moved to ''Beverly'', then to ''Cheat Mountain Pass'' September 11–17: Operations on ''Cheat Mountain'' September 12: ''Cheat Mountain Pass'' October 3–4: ''Greenbrier River'' October 29-November 7: Scouting Expedition through the ''Kanawha District'' December 11–14: Expedition to ''Camp Baldwin'' December 13: ''Action at Camp Allegheny'' December 18: Moved to ''Green Springs Run'' until March 1862: Duty at ''Green Springs Run'' January 1–4: Skirmishes at ''Bath'', ''Hancock'', ''Great Cacapon Bridge'', ''Alpine Station'' and ''Sir John's Run'' March 5–15: Advance on ''Winchester, VA'' March 22: ''Kernstown'' . March 23: ''Battle of Winchester'' April 17: Occupation of ''Mt. Jackson'' May 7: ''Summerville Heights'' May 12–21: March to ''Fredericksburg'' May 25–30: return to ''Front Royal'' June 9: '' Battle of Port Republic'' June 29-July 2: Moved to the ''Peninsula, VA'' until August 16: ''Harrison's Landing'' August 16–23: Moved to ''Fortress Monroe'' August 30 - June 27, 1863: ''Suffolk, VA'' October 3, 1862: Reconnaissance to ''Franklin'' on the Blackwater October 3: ''Franklin'' December 12: ''Zuni Minor's Ford'' January 8–10, 1863: Expedition toward ''Blackwater'' January 30: Action at ''Deserted House'' April 4: ''Leesville'' April 12-May 4: '' Siege of Suffolk'' April 13: ''Edenton'', ''Providence Church'' and ''Somerton Roads'' April 17: ''Suffolk'' April 24: ''Edenton Road'' May 4: ''Siege of Suffolk'' raised May 20: ''Foster's Plantation'' June 24-July 7: ''Dix's Peninsula Campaign'' July 1–7: Expedition from ''White House'' to ''South Anna Bridge'' July 4: ''South Anna Bridge'' July 28-August 3: Moved to ''

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, SC'' until February 1864: Siege operations against '' Fort Wagner'', ''

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'' and against '' Fort Sumpter'' and ''Charleston, SC'' September 7, 1863: Capture of '' Forts Wagner and Gregg'' October 1863, to February 1864: Stationed at ''Folly Island'' December 1863: Reenlisted February 23, 1864: Moved to ''Jacksonville, FL'' until April 17: Duty at ''Jacksonville, FL'' May 4–28: Ordered to ''Hilton Head, SC''; then to ''Gloucester Point, VA''. Butler's operations on Southside of the James River and against Petersburg and Richmond, Va., . May 5: Occupation of ''Bermuda Hundred'' May 6–7: ''Port Walthal Junction'' May 9–10: ''Swift Creek'' May 10: ''Chester Station'' May 12–16: Operations against '' Fort Darling'' May 14–16: ''

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'' May 16–28: Bermuda Hundred May 28-June 1: Moved to ''White House'', then to ''Cold Harbor'' June 1–12: ''Battles about Cold Harbor'' June 15–18: before ''Petersburg'' June 16 to December 6: Siege operations against ''Petersburg'' and ''Richmond'' July 30, 1864:

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, ''Petersburg'' June 19: Non-Veterans left front June 24, 1864: Mustered out August 13–20: Demonstration north of the James at ''Deep Bottom'' . August 14–18: ''Battle of Strawberry Plains'' September 28–30: ''Chaffin's Farm, New Market Heights'' October 27–28: ''Battle of Fair Oaks'' November 4–17: Detached duty at ''New York City'' during Election of 1864 December 7–27: Expedition to ''Fort Fisher'''', NC'' January 3–15, 1865: 2nd Expedition to ''Fort Fisher'''', NC'' January 15: Assault and capture of ''Fort Fisher'' February 19–20: ''Town Creek'' February 22: ''Capture of Wilmington'' March 1-April 26: ''Campaign of the Carolinas'' March 6–21: Advance on ''Goldsboro'' March 21: Occupation of ''Goldsboro'' April 10–14: Advance on ''Raleigh'' April 14: Occupation of ''Raleigh'' April 26: ''Bennett's House'' Surrender of Johnston and his army. until September: Duty at various points in ''North Carolina'' September 5, 1865: Mustered out

Casualties

The original strength of the regiment was 1,047. Gain by recruits, 192; reenlistments, 148; unassigned recruits, 40; total, 1,427. The loss of death, 136; desertion, 103; unaccounted for 25. At its reorganization, the original strength was 980. Gain by recruits, 166; total 1,146. The loss of death, 98; desertion, 1; unaccounted for, 30. The 13th Indiana Infantry lost during service 3 officers and 104 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 officers and 146 enlisted men by disease. Total 255.

Commanders

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April 2, 1861 * Colonel

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April 30, 1862 * Colonel Cyrus Johnson DobbsPhotograph
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Notes

References

* Dyer, Frederick H. ''A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion'' (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908. * Terrell, William Henry Harrison
''Report of the Adjutant General of the state of Indiana''
Volume 2, A.H. Connor tc.State Printer, 1865. * ''The Union Army: Military Affairs and Regimental Histories of New Jersey, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan'', Volume 3, Madison, Wis. Federal Publishing Company, 1908. ;Attribution * {{CWR

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